Oven cleaning in Horton Kirby, DA4, and the cottages along The Street. Dip-tank method, seven days a week, single ovens from £77.
A scheduled Roman granary sits about 250 yards west of St Mary's church, at least 100ft long and 60ft wide, recorded after remains turned up in 1972 under the Westminster Field recreation ground. Horton Kirby is a Sevenoaks district village with a Dartford post town, which is why the address reads DA4.
The kitchens sit in cottages, not flats
Agents listing here describe Grade II listed end-terrace cottages, three-bed semis, period houses on The Street put up around 1913, and the odd oast conversion. There is no tower block. The pattern that follows from stock like this is freestanding cookers in small rooms, old chimney breasts filled in behind them, and in the larger conversions a 90cm range where a farmhouse kitchen was opened up. Booking a range cooker in one of the oast conversions is £114.
Franks Hall is Grade I and dated 1591
Lancelot Bathurst completed it that year: three storeys of red brick on a tall base of knapped flints, casement windows in stone surrounds with mullions and transoms. It shifted to office use by 1980. St Mary's church is Grade II* listed, entry 1238792 on the national list. Listed fabric changes nothing about the method. Racks, shelves, trays and side runners go out to the heated tank in the van, and the cavity, fan cover and door glass are degreased by hand indoors with non-caustic products, so nothing caustic gets carried through an old doorway.
Getting the van here is straightforward
The A225 runs past to the west, Farningham Road station on the Chatham Main Line is roughly a mile off, and Swanley Interchange puts the M20 and M25 three and a half miles away, which for a rural DA4 address makes an early slot about as reliable as an inner-London one. Most village houses here park off-road. Fixed price, no premium-area surcharge on a Horton Kirby address.
What the work costs
| Single oven | £77 |
| Double oven | £110 |
| Range cooker, 90cm | £114 |
| Two-oven AGA | £143 |
| Hob | £23–28 |
| Extractor hood | £28 |
| Microwave | £22 |
Questions from DA4
Do you cover South Darenth as well?
Yes. The two villages are one civil parish, renamed from Horton Kirby to Horton Kirby & South Darenth on 1 April 1979, and we work the whole of it on one run.
Will the kitchen smell afterwards?
It should not. The soaking happens in the van, outside. Indoors the products are non-caustic and the oven is heat-tested and signed off before we leave.
Can you take a booking at a weekend?
We work seven days. Ring 020 8077 5225; the price is fixed on the phone, not after someone has seen the oven.
How long does a double oven take?
About two hours. A single is nearer ninety minutes.
What customers tell us
Arrived promptly and did a great job cleaning the oven, hob and extractor. They look like new now and for a very reasonable price too.
Very satisfied with the service. They were slightly late at first but I got a call from customer service to let me know, and it was all fine. The oven man, as he called himself, arrived and worked very hard for a couple of hours. My oven now looks like it has never been used.
Brilliant clean, my oven looks like brand new. A 5 star clean.
Where Horton Kirby sits
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Box Hill · High Holborn · Mitcham · Harold Hill · Sanderstead · Broad Green
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Call 020 8077 5225 and the Horton Kirby price is fixed on the spot; typers can use the quote form instead.